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Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment is far more than a 19th-century "true crime" story; it is a profound psychological autopsy of a man who tries to outrun his own conscience. Raskolnikov, a brilliant but destitute student, doesn’t kill for money—not really. He kills for an idea. Crime and Punishment - Planet eBook

Ultimately, the novel is a warning against "rational" egoism. Dostoevsky argues that when we treat life as a mathematical equation or a hierarchy of worth, we lose our souls. It is only through the "punishment" of suffering and the acceptance of love that Raskolnikov is able to rejoin the world of the living. Petersburg) or delve deeper into the between Raskolnikov